Wed 27 Oct 2010 In: International News View at Wayback View at NDHA
A visually impaired lesbian has given evidence to a Sydney court that a man told her she “had not met the best man yet” before raping her in her own home. Bruce William Le Cornu, 34, of Redfern, has pleaded not guilty in the NSW District Court to two counts of sexual intercourse with the woman without her consent. He also denied one charge of committing an act of indecency in front of the 52-year-old woman at her unit. AAP reports that in the crown's opening address on Tuesday, prosecutor Eric Balodis said the pair met on August 31 last year at a pub, where the woman won more than $1,600 on the poker machines. He said the woman, who suffers from a degenerative eye condition that means she was vision problems, drank "quite a bit of alcohol" and was on strong medication for pain relief. Mr Balodis said he anticipated Le Cornu would say sex was initiated by the woman and was consensual. "The crown maintains the accused man would have no reasonable grounds for believing she was consenting, including the fact of the state of her intoxication," he said. In her evidence, the woman rejected a suggestion that she initiated the sex, saying "that's preposterous". "He was like a deranged animal," she said.
Credit: GayNZ.com Daily News staff
First published: Wednesday, 27th October 2010 - 10:06am